The holiday season is upon us and it is the time of year when boxing starts winding down. Sometimes you will get the occasional fight, sometimes even a major event type of fight. But for a sport that has no off season, late November through the first of the year comes as close as we get to an off season. Major fights are usually few and far between. But for the dyed in the wool boxing fan, this year Santa has brought us Christmas a little bit early. This weekend we will be given the ultimate gift and I don't mean another soap on the rope from Aunt Judy or another bottle of Old Spice from grandma. On Saturday night cable giants HBO and Showtime will go head to head or close to it when they put on two of the best fight cards of the year. At 9 pm EST Showtime will present the continuation of their Super Six tournament. It hasn't exactly http://www.boxingnotes.com/Ward_Marquez.html
Wards vs Bika to decide who the best 168lbr in the world is.....4 years after the last 168lb King beat Bika and 2 years after the current one did....
I've opened a betting account - this is the first time I've ever placed bets - 3 fights this saturday. Im quite excited. :mj:
This is the FIRST time you've ever bet on boxing? WTF? You've been a boxing fan for years and years. Who have you bet on?
when i looked below this post i saw the 'tags' there are the bottom, but i mistakenly took them for 'currently active users viewing this thread'. i was like wtf
Yup first time. I've straddled all 3 fights in fairly convoluted ways so I won't bore you with the full details. Just looking to come out on top, as a game really. Barring very exceptional outcomes I'll come out with more than I started with. If I can prove to myself I can do that consistently I'll start putting money I'd miss losing. The juggling of numbers mixed with thinking about boxing very much appeals to me. I might have a new hobby.:crafty:
only one working long-term strategy and that's betting VALUE odds which is being consistently over the fair market average with what you're going for. Best way is too spot early odds when they come out bet if you see something emssed up and if that goes down more often than not, you're a winner.
I hear that professional gamblers generally just bet on favourites, ie betting big money on favourites, even if you only get 25% of the money back. Obviously you're going to lose the odd significant chunk of cash, but most favourites are favourites for a reason, it's often easy money I guess. By value odds Royness, do you mean when the odds first open, and one guy is a somewhat significant underdog but really shouldn't be, and you know the odds are going to even out by fight time? I don't bet much on boxing, just sometimes for fun. I generally only bet on underdogs too, when they are against some overrated scrub you just KNOW is going to get bashed, like Hamed Vs Barrera for example.
thats what value means yeah. But also when a bookie offers higher odds then the others on average. the time you're getting them doesn't matter but the best chances are when the bookies just put them out. I never heard of the only betting favs strategy and it won't work for a simple mathematic reason. If the 1.25 is fair (market wise) the opponent would get 5.0 and in this case the fav wins 4 out of 5 times. if its more the 1,25 would be value and everybody would bet it and it would go down. Betting is a learning process for the bookie and the bettor. Odds will eventually be "fair" at some point. Fair means u bet no matter what and u neither win or lose. But of course the bookies take juice (fees) so they win even with fair odds where as the bettor always loses. Thats why this business exists. Most people lose more money than they win if it was easy to make money the books wouldnt exist. so if u bet the fav or the dog with fair odds it doesn't matter u have more Ws with the dogs but you don't make money. winning 1 out of 5 with the 5.0 adds up to the same. What professional gamblers do is find a 1.3 on the fav or a 6.0 on the dog. and they bet whoever they can find as long as it's higher than the fair market odds... and that's the only way to make money gambling.
